doesnt have to, i have shown an example of how faith blinds reason. So it does just that, faith blinds reason.
All faiths?
From just a few examples?
For all people?
Come on, get real.
im not doing that. Im proving a point you cannot refute.
I never said you were. Unless you have a guilty conscience then why would you suggest that?
I understand where your coming from and I dont have a problem with you or your religion.
I know you don't.
For one, you don't know me. I'm words on a screen with a pretty avatar.
Secondly
2.a.) I don't have "one" religion. That's why I'm a Dharmic Syncretist.
2.b.) I doubt many on RF even have anything but a basic or superficial understanding of what my religions teach anyway. Something that seems nasty, but from my experience is true.
See, notice the difference? The OP and many supporters have said "all". I've given a more specific idea: quite a few on RF don't understand Dharmic religions. Doesn't mean nobody does. Some non-believers know my paths better than I. I know some believers know my paths better.
that is not what the OP asked though.
The OP says "Does faith compromise a person's ability to reason?"
And so many are saying "Yes".
But that's a damn broad brush.
By no means am I saying "Literalists use reason"
But I'm saying "Not everyone who has faith is an ignoramous"
Which is what the OP effectively says.
If it said do some, can some, can some people's interpretations of, and so on, you wouldn't hear a damn peep out of me, because I know people can use their religion in stupid ways and take everything as literal. I don't dispute that, nor do I defend it. Such views are abhorrent.
But so are views that paint anyone of faith as ignorant.
So can we please stop with the tarring of the same brush? I came to RELIGIOUS Education Forums, not Abrahamic Education Forums.